Puffins have been seen on the Isle of Muck in County Antrim for the first time in years, after a major scheme to remove ...

BREMEN — The Seabird Institute announces the first annual Puffin Palooza! This family friendly event will occur on Saturday, July 9 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Todd Wildlife Sanctuary in Bremen.

From a bird blind on Seal Island, puffins zoomed in from the sea with a rainbow of fish drooping from their beaks. They carried copper and golden juvenile haddock, redfish and white hake. Others had ...

Annette Fayet was scanning a colony of Atlantic puffins off the coast of Wales when something caught her eye. A puffin, gently bobbing on the sea, held a stick in its orange-black bill. Then, the ...

I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers ...

Perhaps puffins aren't as bird-brained as previously believed. A team of animal experts observed two Atlantic puffins, more than 1,000 miles apart, spontaneously scratching themselves with sticks — ...

Motion-activated cameras in July 2018 caught the moment a puffin picked up a stick from the ground and used it to scratch its chest. Experts guess the bird may have been trying to dislodge a tick.

Members of a research crew on Seal Island rejoiced in the puffins’ comeback, but worried about the impacts of climate change on terns, and seethed with anger over budget cuts by the Trump ...

The key drivers of seabird migration have now been revealed for the first time in a new study. The research suggests that puffin colonies that travel great distances during the winter often find it ...

A National Audubon Society project has restored these seabirds to islands off Maine. But could this good work be undone? I MADE MY FIRST VISIT to a seabird colony in the 1960s and found it dazzling ...

Every summer, a handful of interns and research assistants are selected from hundreds of applicants to camp in primitive conditions on a tiny, treeless island several miles off Maine's coast. Their ...